Abstract:
A method is used for producing nanoscale and microscale devices in a variety of materials, such as silicon dioxide patterned buried films. The method is inexpensive and reliable for making small scale mechanical, optical, or electrical devices and relies upon the implantation of ions into a substrate and subsequent annealing to form a stoichiometric film with the device geometry is defined by the implant energy and dose and so is not limited by the usual process parameters.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a microfluidic device comprising a body structure which comprises a fusible material. Selective application of energy (e.g. scanning radiation) produces and maintains a network of microchannels by fusing the material. There may be pons in fluid communication with one or more channels. The subject devices find use in a variety of electrophoretic applications, including clinical assays, high throughput screening for genomics, proteomics and pharmaceutical applications, point-of-care in vitro diagnostics, molecular genetic analysis and nucleic acid diagnostics, cell separations, and bioresearch generally.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for the removal of a microscopic sample 1 from a substrate 2, comprising: performing a cutting process whereby the substrate 2 is irradiated with a beam 4 such that the sample 1 is cut out of the substrate 2, and performing an adhesion process whereby the sample 1 is adhered to a probe 3, characterized in that the cutting process, during at least part of the duration of the cutting process, is carried out by at least two beams 4, 5 simultaneously. By performing cutting with at least two beams, the sample 1 can be extracted without having to change the orientation of the substrate 2 with respect to the means that produce the beams. Both the act of working with two beams simultaneously and the attendant possibility of keeping the orientation constant provide time-savings compared to a method whereby cutting is only performed with a single beam.
Abstract:
A laser direct write method creates true three dimensional structures within photocerams using an focused pulsed ultraviolet laser with a wavelength in a weakly absorbing region of the photoceram material. A critical dose of focused laser UV light selectively exposes embedded volumes of the material for subsequent selective etching. The photoceram material exposure is nonlinear with the laser fluence and the critical dose depends on the square of the per shot fluence and the number of pulses. The laser light is focused to a focal depth for selective volumetric exposure of the material within a focal volume within the remaining collateral volumes that is critically dosed for selecting etching and batch fabrication of highly defined embedded structures.
Abstract:
For controlling a physical dimension of a solid state structural feature, a solid state structure is provided, having a surface and having a structural feature. The structure is exposed to a first periodic flux of ions having a first exposure duty cycle characterized by a first ion exposure duration and a first nonexposure duration for the first duty cycle, and then at a second periodic flux of ions having a second exposure duty cycle characterized by a second ion exposure duration and a second nonexposure duration that is greater than the first nonexposure duration, for the second duty cycle, to cause transport, within the structure including the structure surface, of material of the structure to the structural feature in response to the ion flux exposure to change at least one physical dimension of the feature substantially by locally adding material of the structure to the feature.
Abstract:
A nanomachining method for producing high-aspect ratio precise nanostructures. The method begins by irradiating a wafer with an energetic charged-particle beam. Next, a layer of patterning material is deposited on one side of the wafer and a layer of etch stop or metal plating base is coated on the other side of the wafer. A desired pattern is generated in the patterning material on the top surface of the irradiated wafer using conventional electron-beam lithography techniques. Lastly, the wafer is placed in an appropriate chemical solution that produces a directional etch of the wafer only in the area from which the resist has been removed by the patterning process. The high mechanical strength of the wafer materials compared to the organic resists used in conventional lithography techniques with allows the transfer of the precise patterns into structures with aspect ratios much larger than those previously achievable.
Abstract:
A solid state structure having a surface is provided and exposed to a flux, F, of incident ions under conditions that are selected based on: ∂ ∂ t C ( r , t ) = F Y 1 + D ∇ 2 C - C τ trap - F C σ C , where C is concentration of mobile adatoms at structure surface, r is vector surface position, t is time, T1 is number of adatoms created per incident ion, D is adatom diffusivity, &tgr;trap is average lifetime of an adatom before adatom annihilation occurs at a structure surface defect characteristic of structure material, and &sgr;C is cross-section for adatom annihilation by incident ions characteristic of selected ion exposure conditions. Ion exposure condition selection controls sputtering of the structure surface by incident ions to transport, within the structure including the structure surface, structure material to a feature location, in response to the ion flux exposure, to produce a feature substantially by locally adding structure material to the feature location.
Abstract:
본 발명은 투명한 또는 투과성 유리 기판 (2) 안으로 적어도 하나의 관통구멍 (1) 을 도입하기 위한 방법에 관한 것이며, 상기 유리 기판 (2) 은 전자기 방사선, 특히 레이저를 이용해 빔축 (s) 을 따라 선택적으로 변조된다. 상기 변조들이 유리 기판 (2) 안에서 빔축 (s) 을 따라, 서로 다른 특성들을 갖는 전자기 방사선에 의해, 예컨대 서로 다른 펄스 에너지에 의해, 생성됨으로써, 상기 유리 기판 (2) 안의 에칭공정이 비균질하게 서로 다른 에칭률들로 진행된다. 이를 통해, 상기 투명한 또는 투과성 재료 안에서 에칭 처리를 근거로 생기는 관통구멍 (1) 을 타겟팅하여 그리고 선택적으로 상기 변조들의 서로 다른 특성들을 통해 형성하는 그리고 예컨대 상기 관통구멍 (1) 의 원뿔각도 (α, β) 를 변화시키는 가능성이 만들어내진다.